Women Say Overwhelming Yes To Ultrasound In New Study
... study: 83 percent of the women said they would worry less if a routine ultrasound was normal. 68 percent believed that an ultrasound posed no health risks. 66 percent disagreed that an ultrasound should only be performed if there is a reason to believe something is medically wrong. 42 percent of all...Drug Is First In Decade To Show Promise Treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder
... characterized by persistent,excessive anxiety and worry over routine life activities. The condition can beserious enough to impair social and job functioning, and often includes physicalsymptoms such as fatigue, trembling, muscle tension, headache and nausea.Depression is found in 30 percent to 50 percent......ct lenses. Moreimportantly, Kiley does not have to worry about looking "different," and he willbe better prepared to play baseball. "When he played outfield, he couldn't judgethe ball very well," she said. "And when he was batting, he would get hit moreoften than other kids would because he couldn't judge ...Women Born With Birth Defects Run Small Risk Their Children Will Have Them
...ences reported today. Women with birth defects may worry that their children will also have defects,whether the same as the mother's or different. The study published in The NewEngland Journal of Medicine offers at least partial reassurance to such women. This study used the extensive birth registry of Nor...Baby Talk: Parents Do Make A Difference, By Promoting Childhood Chatter, From Birth To Age 3
...ut now they can contribute to it, and know when to worry and when not toworry." Silence is not golden--but forget the flashcards How Babies Talk was written with all parents, educators and child-careprofessionals in mind, thanks to "the many children in laboratories worldwide,who show us how they trans...To Drive Or Not To Drive? New Criteria For Those With Epilepsy
...." Having a seizure while driving is one worry that nags people withepilepsy, and to date, no good research exists that lets them predict their riskof an accident. A new study at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland,however, tells how epilepsy patients and their physicians can assess cha...UNC-CH study shows compressed air sleeve prevents blood clots during hip replacement
...good," Lachiewicz said. "They mean wedon't have to worry about patients bleeding too much because we don't have touse drugs to thin out their blood. Using the pneumatic compression duringsurgery makes total hip replacement safer not just for healthy people but foreverybody including the elderly." T...Women at high risk for breast cancer may avoid mammograms
...east afford it. "We focused on high-risk women who worry about breast cancer, but who are notconscientious,...e of HealthPsychology. By and of itself, a woman's worry about cancer did not predict whether she wouldundergo an x-ray to find out if she had the disease. ...Implanted defibrillators and anti-theft systems appear safe under normal circumstances
...ion. But in normal use, there should benothing to worry about," says Zipes, Distinguished Professor of Medicine andPharmacology at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. An estimated 400,000 people worldwide have implanted defibrillators andas many as 800,000 security systems a...New coating could lead to safer, more convenient asthma drugs
...e intoinhalers repeatedly throughout the day -- or worry about harmful side effects ofasthma drugs -- if a University of Florida-developed coating proves assuccessful in humans as it has in rats. The coating, developed by team of researchers in UF's colleges of pharmacy andengineering, covers tiny drug par...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...ome and 26 percent say that they often orsometimes worry that they will be unable to pay their rent or mort...ttleor no insurance; 48 percent often or sometimes worry that a family member willhave an uninsured illness. Half of respondents often or sometimes worry tha...Are the signs of dyslexia in a newborn baby?
...ncerned that such mistakes would cause unnecessary worry for children andparents. Nevertheless, he believes Molfese is on the right track. He says astudy in which the children are grouped at birth on the basis of their brainwaves, rather than later after reading problems develop, would be a bettermeasure o...Unprotected anal sex increasing in San Francisco
...r among 18 to 29 year-old gay men, the researchers worry that anincrease in risky sexual behavior will result in higher rates of HIV infection. Already, several US cities have reported an increase in rectal gonorrhea,including San Francisco. "We want to go back to the community with our findings before HIV...Moderate levels of worry can motivate women to get mammograms
...or women at risk of breast cancer, a little bit of worry can be a powerfulincentive to get screened for the...ion program, those whoexpressed moderate levels of worry about developing breast cancer were mostlikely to receive a mammogram during the following year, acc...Vegans likely short on calcium, experts say
...t enough vegetables, or you can drink milk and not worry about it.Alternatively, calcium can be obtained from fortified foods and supplements." Calcium is the most common mineral found in the body, and it is used in manybody functions, such as muscle movement, including the heart. Bones contain muchof the ...Publicity about bowel cancer screening leads to reassurance not alarm
...ut bowel cancer screening were no more inclined to worry about the disease than those who did not receive t...bowel symptoms to their doctor, they reported less worry about bowel cancer....Personal story aims to improve 'connections' between hard of hearing and the hearing world
...he desire to withdraw and be quiet and not have to worry about listening." She is positive about her own future. "I've often wondered to myself had I not been sensitized to the issue of hearing loss, would I have noted on my 50th year physical exam that maybe my hearing was not what it might be? I don't ne...Wet combing is far more effective in detecting head lice than traditional scalp inspection
...hool children in Belgium. False results are a worry since they lead to non-infested children being treated unnecessarily and infested children missing out on effective eradication treatment. The study, in this week's BMJ, suggests that despite the extra effort involved, wet combing is the gold standar...Wet combing is far more effective in detecting head lice than traditional scalp inspection
...y school children in Belgium. False results are a worry since they lead to non-infested children being treated unnecessarily and infested children missing out on effective eradication treatment. The study, in this week's BMJ, suggests that despite the extra effort involved, wet combing is the gold standar...Common hearing test for newborns may be wrong up to a third of the time
...chigan study finds. Besides causing new parents to worry needlessly about their child's hearing, the technique may also lead to more costs in the long run for follow-up tests. By contrast, the study finds, a slightly more complex test seems to give normal-hearing babies a passing grade nearly all the time....